Department of Community Medicine
Community Medicine is an integral facet of public health and employs comprehensive strategies to promote and safeguard community well-being, emphasizing preventive measures, epidemiology, and health management at the population level.
Facilities
The students are given hands on training in carrying out population based epidemiological studies in collaboration with Primary Health Centres at Bamunara , Shibpur and Kataberia as well as Urban Health Centre at Karanga Para, Durgapur. The facilities will be utilized for field practice by the students in the Dept. of Community Medicine.
Equipments and Models
- ▪ Microscope oil immersion
- ▪ Filter, berk field
- ▪ Hydrometres, Spirit
- ▪ Hydrometres, milk
- ▪ Hydrometers, wet and dry bulb
- ▪ Centrifuge clinical
- ▪ Harpenders Callipers
- ▪ Dissecting microscope
- ▪ Boring of tube well
- ▪ Filter, Pasteur chamberland, complete
- ▪ Comparator, Nessler with disc
- ▪ Barometer, Fortin w/o mercury
- ▪ Extraction Apparatus, fat, complete
- ▪ Protected (Sanitary) Well
- ▪ Insanitary well
- ▪ Step well
- ▪ Model of slow send Filter
- ▪ Model of rapid sand filter
- ▪ Louvre’s ventilator
- ▪ Bio Gas Plant
- ▪ Bore hole latrine
- ▪ Septic tank latrine
- ▪ Section of Septic Tank installation
- ▪ Mosquito collecting Device
Central Facilities
Demonstration room- 2
Research room – 1
Museum – 1